“But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“There is no escape from this. Either you do or you don't. And if you do, you can't be sure of doing… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It's just that we shared a certain language, and when she talked to me about her past, I understood her without having… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Everything solid for a time, and then the sun comes up one morning and the world begins to melt.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Ferguson closed his eyes, paused for a long moment, and then turned to her and said: The best thing about being fifteen… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've been asked several times over the years to become president, and I've always said no, because I didn't want to give… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“...and while all people were bound together by the common space they shared, their journeys through time were all different, which meant… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“He has been marked by the past, and once that happens, nothing can be done about it. Something happens, Blue thinks, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the real,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Every time Sachs posed for a picture, he was forced to impersonate himself, to play the game of pretending to be who… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Always lost, always striking out in the wrong direction, always going around in circles. You have suffered from a life-long inability to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I went during those days, the streets were filled with talk of the Mets. It was one of those rare moments… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“If I hit that tree with this stone, Rousseau says, all will go well in my life from now on. He throws… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Les moments de crise produsent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes. Moments of crisis produce a redoubled vitality in men. Or,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be explained anymore, at some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“But suddenly, after all this time, I feel there is something to say, and if I don't quickly write it down, my… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“But the present is no less dark than the past, and its mystery is equal to anything the future might hold. Such… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“He realized that for Ponge there was no division between the work of writing and the work of seeing. For no word… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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